IGCSE-CS Security and Ethics

A computer that hosts a website is known as a

• Web storage server

• hard disk

• Web server

• computer server

Where are cookies stored?

• In the computer's browser

• In the hard drive

• In the RAM

• In the ROM

A firewall blocks….

• Mexicans (According to Trump)

• Unauthorized Connections to your LAN

• from checking if you saved your work

• disgruntled employees

How do you know that a website uses SSL?

• Your computer shows a message saying it does

• There is a ‘s’ in the ‘https’ of the URL

• All websites use SSL by default

• It checks for a certificate

A firewall can either be a hardware or a software

• True

• False

TLS is a more recent security system than SSL. It has

• three layers

• two layers

• five layers

• four layers

This part of TLS can be used with or without encryption

• handshake protocol

• record protocol

It is possible to extend TLS by adding new authentication methods

• true

• false

TLS uses _______ which improves the overall performance compared to SSL

• handshaking process

• session caching

Which encryption faces key distribution problem

• Symmetric encryption

• Asymmetric encryption